Growth app is an app for Stack Overflow activists who want to bring collaborative knowledge sharing to their language.

1. Check out code from GitHub to any folder.

2. Create a symbolic link ln -s /path/to/your/folder/growth-app/ /home/growth_app. It means that we assume that the root directory of the project is "/home/growth_app". If you want to user another directory, take a look at the growth-app/growth_app.wsgi, and growth-app/growth_app.conf.

3. Set up apache according the app folder and the version of apache. You can find growth_app.conf for /home/growth_app and for apache 2.2.

4. You need apache web server, mod_wsgi, postgres 9+ installed.

5. Install Flask and Flask's modules

   pip install Flask
   pip install Flask-Babel
   pip install Flask-SQLAlchemy
   pip install Flask-OpenID

6. Login to postgres.

   psql -U postgres -h localhost -d template1

7. Create a user and a database.

   CREATE USER your user;
   CREATE DATABASE growth_app;
   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE growth_app TO your_user;

^* If you cannot log in as a postgres see this. ^** If there are issues with auth see this.

8. Create a local_settings.py file in the growth-app folder with following variables

   STACKEXCHANGE_CLIENT_SECRET = "secret"
   STACKEXCHANGE_CLIENT_KEY = "key"
   STACKEXCHANGE_CLIENT_ID = id

   FLASK_SECRET_KEY = 'key'
   PG_NAME_PASSWORD = "name:pass"

9. Execute python growth_app.py --init_db. This command creates database tables according the models.

10. Execute python growth_app.py --load_sites. This command loads 'site_conf.json' and fills the Site database table.

11. Execute python growth_app.py --load_activities. This command loads activities and activists from activities_conf.json.

This was it. Now it should work. If it does not, please ping @NicolasChabanovsky in The Terminal.